Several years ago I noticed a bump on my body. I began praying to see myself as God’s spiritual child, created “very good,” as stated in Genesis 1:31. I prayed with a conviction that an understanding of God heals, as countless accounts in the Bible and this periodical have illustrated. I also read Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer by Yvonne Caché von Fettweis and Robert Townsend Warneck, which is full of healings. And a Christian Science practitioner, who is an individual who devotes his or her life to praying for others who ask for Christian Science treatment, prayed with me. I felt very close to God, and the bump disappeared.
However, fear that it would return was always in my thought. A couple of years later it did, and became larger. I became very fearful and preoccupied with fears of what the problem might be. Within a few days, I was not able to do many things in my active life without discomfort. I put everything aside and turned to prayer to lift myself out of the mesmerism of fear.
In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy says: “Always begin your treatment by allaying the fear of patients. Silently reassure them as to their exemption from disease and danger. Watch the result of this simple rule of Christian Science, and you will find that it alleviates the symptoms of every disease. If you succeed in wholly removing the fear, your patient is healed” (pp. 411–412). That last sentence just popped out to me. I saw that by understanding why I could be free from fear, the fear would dissolve, and I would be healed.
